Science

Hayward is a Christian anthropologist who lectures at Biola University. This is a very helpful presentation explaining how anthropologists view religion and how a Christian anthropologist adds to this. Hayward has some excellent things to say which are relevant to evangelism and ministry across cultures. His wide-sweeping lecture also concerns the relationship between the science [...]

In one interview Hiedegger remarked: I would say that men – for example in communism – have a religion, because they believe in science. They believe unconditionally in modern science. And this unconditional belief in science, that means the confidence in the certainty of the results of science is a belief, and in a certain [...]

In his book Christianity Alongside Islam (Acorn Press, 2o10) John Wilson finds it necessary to deal with the outlandish view of some “new atheists” that Jesus never lived at all. This position is so absurd as to be not worthy of consideration were it not for the fact that others are repeating this view as [...]

Research scientist Phil Burcham demonstrates the implausibility of the abiogenesis theory. In 1952 Harold Urey presumptuously claimed: Life is not a miracle. It is a natural phenomenon, and can be expected to appear whenever there is a planet whose conditions duplicate those of the earth. Stanley Miller sought to test this theory, trying to simulate [...]

Raymond Tallis uses his own personal experience to indicate the immense divide between humans and animals. He recalls being the proud, though at times exasperated, owner of a flat-coat retriever named Barkleigh. Barkleigh was obsessed with the act of retrieving. He would constantly present Tallis with a ball, stick or other projectile for Tallis to throw [...]

In his book God’s Undertaker, John Lennox makes the important point that for science to develop, thinking had to be freed from the hitherto ubiquitous Aristotelian method of deducing from fixed principles how the universe ought to be, to a methodology that allowed the universe to speak directly. Francis Bacon is often hailed as being [...]

In his book God’s Undertaker John Lennox notes the views of some top scientists who disparage religion. He cites Peter Atkins, Professor of Chemistry at Oxford University, where Lennox himself is Professor in Mathematics, while also being Fellow in Mathematics and the Philosophy of Science at Green Templeton College. Atkins states: Science, the system of belief [...]

Richard Dawkins regards all religious faith as blind faith, stating that “scientific belief is based upon publicly checkable evidence”, whereas “religious faith not only lacks evidence; its independence from evidence is its joy, shouted from the rooftops.” For mainstream Christianity this is pure baloney, utter nonsense. John Lennox (Professor of Mathematics at the University of [...]

I was re-reading Bertrand Russell’s “Introduction” to A History of Western Philosophy and a number of things struck me about Russell’s foundational assumptions: 1. In the very first paragraph Russell recognises that a philosophy is a product of two factors: (a) inherited religious and ethical conceptions; (b) ‘scientific’ investigation, broadly understood. He also observes that [...]

A while back I was reading an article in Philosophy Now by Russell Berg in which he presented 15 criteria for distinguishing between a scientific theory and a non-scientific one. Perhaps predictably enough, his first criterion, that a scientific theory uses natural explanations, takes us to the heart of major issues, which, however, were not [...]